Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark matter clusters, new ‘echo map’ technique suggests
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HD 189733b looks deep blue from space, almost Earth-like at first glance — but its colour comes not from oceans, but from silicate particles in a scorching atmosphere where glass may rain sideways through winds of thousands of kilometres an hour.
From a distance, the exoplanet HD 189733b looks like the most reassuring thing in the sky: a deep…
Desert moss may hide one of Earth’s oldest partnerships
Moss seems to get by on almost nothing. It colonizes bare rock, survives near-total desiccation, and springs back…
Scientists Just Repeated a Nobel Prize-Winning Experiment in a Creature Older Than Jellyfish
Experiments on comb jelly embryos reveal that a core developmental process shared across animals may trace back to…
NASA astronauts test 2026 FIFA World Cup ball ‘Trionda’ on ISS
The 2026 FIFA World Cup’s official match ball, Trionda, has been sent to the International Space Station. NASA…
Scientists Just Found Something Weird Inside Moss
Mosses are famous for surviving conditions that would kill most plants, but new research suggests they may not…
NASA Is Testing A Rover That Can Drive Faster And Lift Its Wheels To Climb Obstacles
NASA’s Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in…
Underwater Speakers Are Having An Unexpected Effect On Jamaica’s Coral Reefs
Hailey Seelig/Getty Images Coral reefs are essential for…
Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage | Cop31
Electrifying the world – with electric vehicles, electric heating and cooling, and modernised heavy industry – could be…
Milky Way fossil fragment reveals how our galaxy formed
The middle of the Milky Way is anything but quiet. Stars fill the region, dust clouds make observations…
Largest Denisovan DNA study reveals ancient genes still active in Oceanian populations
Ancient DNA inherited from Denisovans, an extinct group of human relatives, still influences the biology of people living…
It’s Official: Third Galaxy Found With No Dark Matter May Solve an Epic Mystery : ScienceAlert
Most of the mass in galaxies consists of stuff we cannot see. According to current galaxy formation models,…